Vegetation height derivation from shuttle Radar Topography mission data in Southeast Georgia, USA

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 7, Issue , 2004, Pages 4512-4515

  Kellndorfer, J M ^a   Walker, W S ^a   Dobson, M C ^a   Vona, John ^b   Clutter, Mike ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b Plum Creek Timber Company   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

InSAR; Scattering Phase Center; SRTM; TOPSAR; Vegetation Canopy Height

Indexed keywords

SAR INTERFEROMETRY (INSAR); SCATTERING PHASE CENTER; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM); TOPSAR; VEGETATION CANOPY HEIGHT;

CORRELATION METHODS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; LINEARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL RADAR; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPACE SHUTTLES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; VEGETATION;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 15944392068     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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